Rita Sallam

Rita Sallam

Research VP

Rita L. Sallam is a member of the Global Content Team tasked with developing the content for Gartner Data & Analytics Summit series globally. She is a Research Vice President at Gartner in the Business Analytics and Data Science team. Her focus includes writing about and advising organizations on market trends, vendor assessment and selection, and best practices for making analytics pervasive and strategic to the business. Of particular interest to her is the evolution of modern BI platforms to support smart data discovery, self-service data preparation and advanced analytics.

Years of Experience:

9 years in total with Gartner

29 years in the IT industry

5 years in the Retail industry

5 years in the Banking, Finance and Insurance industries

5 years in the Energy and Utilities industry

5 years in the Public Sector

Issues I help clients address:

Comparing and selecting the right vendors

Assessing cost of ownership

Taking advantage of key trends in BI and analytics

Developing a successful BI strategy and program

Sunday, March 17, 2019 03:30 PM|Sunday, March 17, 2019 05:30 PM

Innovative Analytics in Action: Emerging Trends You Need to Know

This session showcases top disruptive innovations with live demonstrations from representative vendors leading in these areas. Key issues addressed include: How can you use the Hype Cycle to track emerging trends? What are 4 innovations that will transform your business and what value do they provide? How do you prioritize your technology investments? Which are the vendors to watch? What challenges should you consider? This session will also include live demos from representative vendors in each innovation area.

Monday, March 18, 2019 04:15 PM|Monday, March 18, 2019 05:00 PM

Magic Quadrant Power Session: Analytics

Faced with increasing ambiguity D&A leaders need to be able to rapidly identify and evaluate both vendors and solutions that will satisfy organizational requirements for data and analytics. Gartner Magic Quadrants address this need by a graphical approach and evaluation across a uniform set of criteria. The following Magic Quadrants will be presented: Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms, and Data Science and Machine-Learning Platforms.

This session will provide the audience an opportunity to ask questions to a panel of the Gartner analysts who took part in the opening keynote. This town hall will cover the ideas posed by the keynote. Attendees can ask a panel of analysts direct questions, or learn from questions posed by peers.

Tuesday, March 19, 2019 06:00 AM|Tuesday, March 19, 2019 07:00 AM

Fun Run/Walk with Analysts

Grab your friends and colleagues and get moving! Join Gartner analysts Ted Friedman, Rita Sallam, Michael Moran and other Gartner analysts for a fun run/walk using the super cool Gixo fitness app. For 40 minutes, our Gixo D&A Summit coach will provide motivation, fitness tips and group and individual data about our progress. You will also be able to interact with other participants along the way using the app. Join us outdoors to start your day on the right foot. Download the app at https://go.gixo.com/gartner. Enter gartner as the Promocode in pricing. Participation is free.

Meet up at lobby by 6am to get logged in to the app, sign your release form and set up for the fun!

Tuesday, March 19, 2019 11:30 AM|Tuesday, March 19, 2019 12:30 PM

Analytics Show Floor Showdown: ABI Vendors

This session will provide attendees an opportunity to see analytic tools being applied in a controlled, consistent setting via a demonstration of product capabilities. Vendors will demonstrate their platform capabilities based on a guided script and common format in a moderated setting using the data from the BI and data science and machine learning bake-off sessions. This session is educational to help prospective buyers and influencers understand the analytic process and the look, feel, use and application of each tool

Wednesday, March 20, 2019 11:30 AM|Wednesday, March 20, 2019 12:15 PM

The Future of Data and Analytics: How Augmented Analytics Will Transform Your Organization

Augmented analytics is a disruptive trend that leverages machine automation and AI to transform how data is prepared, how insights are generated and shared and how data science and ML models are created and operationalized. This presentation provides an overview of the key trend and how you need to fully leverage it in your organization.

Wednesday, March 20, 2019 02:00 PM|Wednesday, March 20, 2019 03:30 PM

Workshop: How to Leverage All Forms of Diversity in Your Organization to Drive Business Results

This workshop will provide you with a hands-on opportunity to learn from your peers and Gartner research on leading IT and tech organizations that are successfully leveraging all forms of diversity of to drive innovation, better decisions and improved overall business performance.

Thursday, March 21, 2019 10:45 AM|Thursday, March 21, 2019 11:30 AM

Top Technology Trends in Data and Analytics That Will Change Your Business

AI is not the only thing driving rapid change in data and analytics. From the next generation of augmented analytics tools to the use of continuous intelligence to interpret streams of data from IoT or the potential of conversational interfaces, there is rapid evolution in how and where analysis can be deployed. Understanding the business impact of these changes will allow organizations to prioritize the innovations that will drive digital business.